Overview
We are born crying. These tears are the first signs of language. At birth, children dominate the sound system of their language and soon they are already having conversations. This extraordinary human faculty raises important biological questions about language. In this book, two eminent scholars address in depth the fascinating question of the evolution of language.Author Biography
Robert C. Berwick is a professor of computational linguistics and science and engineering at MIT. He is the author of Computational Complexity and Natural Language and The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge. Noam Chomsky revolutionized linguistics with the publication of Syntactic Structures, a work that opened the doors to countless leads in fields like psychology, epistemology, cognitive sciences, and biology.